The Labor enquirer., 1887-02-19
VICTORIES OF TN w1zK.
The Various Successes Of Labor
Suppressed by the capi-
talist Press.

LatSt Fress.
The men who run the mines ct Greg
ory, Montana, have SAND and must be
honored for 1t. Three hundred Of them
thus secured their pay after the mama
gers had told them that the treasury
was empty and the works were to be
closed: They immediately put the camp
into state Of siege. took charge of the
company's property, called mass
meeting, to which they escorted four
managers (among whom was the son Of
the New York Hebrew banker, Selig-
MANI. delivered speeches to them. put a
guard over them, and resolved to bold
them as hostages till the two mouths
pay Of $4,000 was forthcoming. After
time thev paroled three Of the mug
wumps, but held Seligman. who dis
patched the facts TO his father in New
York, By whom the amount due was at
once paid by telegraph. The men got
their money and the bows are holding q
jubilee.
The success of the striking miners at
Wilkesbarre deserves more than passing
notice. Their victory is one which has
an important bearing. and should give
pleasure to all those who believe In the
prosperity of our American institutions.
The fight was between the advocates of
imported pauper labor on one side
and honest, deserving labor on the
other. There was no chance for mistak
ing the issue. Men who live in Amer
lea pay .axes in America, and carry
their share Of the common burden, were
roughly pu he'd aside and their places in
the mines given to those who were im.
ported as just s5 many machines might
be. Nay, worse, for greedy mining cor
porations importing inanimate machines
would be compelled to pay duty. while
on human machines there IS no restric-
tion whatever. The corporation tried
the experiment Just one week then,
having secured 500 for coal mined at
an expenditure.of 5000 for labor and
$2,l00 for detectives" gave up the
fight. Every right thinking citizen,
whether capitalist orlaborer, will rejoice
in this instance of signal failure to sup.
plant those who are of and part of us
by those who know neither the sound
or the essence of constitutional liberty,
nor care to know them. Honest labo r
is always welcome to our shores; con-
vict and pauper labor must be kept
out. And nothing will have stronger
tendency to keep it out than few such
failures as overlook the importers at the
Wilkesbarre mines.
The struggles of the silk ribbon
weavers of New York have been largely
successful. Two employers refused,
Jacob Slibermann and Jacob New, who
wanted ten days in which to conslde
the matter. Strikes have therefore en-
sued in both places, seventy-eight men
going out at News establishment end
aboutsixtv at Slibermann's.
| What wonderful stimulus to the In
terests Of the class papers in the forlorr
condition of the poor, whom We always
have with vou," has been the organiza-
tion Of the party of United Labor in
New York. The Tribune publishes all
about the Prisoners of Poverty" except
the "all." The Journal goes it blind
on tenement house investigation the
World talks of "Poverty's GRIM Grasp
as lift meant something the editor O
the Sun tells his young men to writ,
gently about organized labor, while tht
Herald publishes Socialistic correspond
ence, and prints yards of cable dis
patches about labor in foreign cities
and even the Times forgeis to do more
than sneer.
The New York senate has passed {
bill making Labor day first Monday in
September) legal holiday.